LONDON: Google knows that it has to do more to improve Android’s overall security and this week it claimed a big victory in its war against malware installations.
Android Central reports that Google has release its Android Security State of the Union for 2014 and it’s found that malware installations were down by half of what they were in 2013. More specifically, Google found that “fewer than 1% of Android devices had a Potentially Harmful App PHA, i.e. malware installed in 2014″ and that “fewer than 0.15% of devices that only install from Google Play had a PHA installed.”
To make sure that users don’t get any malicious applications on their phone, the best way to do it is stick with the Google Play store, or at least avoids shady third-party sources.
Malware is just one potential issue Android phone users have to deal with. Another Google Play-related issue seen recently are paid apps that offer to do “security scans” for phone but that in reality doesn’t do anything.
